Directly Switch to Light or Dark Theme

[sf1tzp]

Hi! I'm pretty sure this is a nooby question, but... I am new to vim and still learning the ropes.

Since this plugin requires setting background independently of colorscheme gruvbox there doesn't seem to be a way to 'directly' switch between the two settings.

I'm using Telescope to switch colorschemes, and there's only one gruvbox entry. If I'm currently using a light theme and want to switch to gruvbox with a dark background, I need to first switch to gruvbox and then change the background setting.

I noticed some themes ship with multiple themes, but I'm assuming that since the change is so minimal, you didn't feel the need to do that here.

:help colorscheme says we can drop things in ~/.config/nvim/colors, so I tried a few things there:

vim.o.background = "light"
vim.cmd([[colorscheme gruvbox]])

and

runtime gruvbox
set background=dark

I also tried adding gruvbox twice my lazy config with different name and config functions, but yeah, no luck.

So I just thought I'd ask. Is there convenient or canonical way of creating gruvbox-light and gruvbox-dark colorschemes to switch to?

[polyzen]

Simply using :set background=dark or :set background=light should work.

https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired comes with mappings such as yob which toggles the background option.

https://github.com/vimpostor/vim-lumen could be used to automatically switch based on your system dark/light mode.

[sf1tzp]

Thank you for the suggestions,

Using :set background does work but it isn't exactly the functionality that I'm looking for here. I want to "switch to gruvbox and set the background to dark" using a :colorscheme command.

[sf1tzp]

I added a couple of variants to the theme in #298 for what it's worth - still open to suggestions though if I am reinventing the wheel here

[sf1tzp]

Using files like this works well if anybody else is trying to achieve this:

-- ~/.config/nvim/colors/gruvbox-dark.lua
vim.o.background = "dark"
require("gruvbox").load()

-- ~/.config/nvim/colors/gruvbox-light.lua
vim.o.background = "light"
require("gruvbox").load()